A Race to the Finish : A struggle for equal rights
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Summary
The United States, despite its libertarian ideals and emphasis on equality, has more than once turned its back on its own citizens. Slavery, the most bruising, shameful mark in the history of this democracy, divided the American culture even after the Civil War ended and the slaves were freed. In the nineteenth century and twentieth century black society continually fought for their civil rights, pursuing an equality of opportunity that all citizens should find inalienable and duly granted at birth. Despite this, this pursuit of happiness was not without a long and complex history. From the Atlanta Compromise of Booker T. Washington to the Niagara Movement's eventual creation of the NAACP, the struggle for African American equality has been consistently evolving. Regardless of the differences in philosophical approaches towards achieving equality, the common factor within the civil rights movement has been the stress of unity, and the search for peaceful resolution through legislative and judicial means.
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- The forerunner of black rights in America following the Civil War was Booker T.
- His arguments, purely capitalist in design, attested the importance of innovation.
- DuBois himself was philosophically different from Washington in terms of overcoming racial inequality.
- In 1957, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights passed the Civil Rights Act.
- Literally, blacks and whites were banding together in the south and revolted against the biased and prejudiced laws plaguing black equality of access.
- The Black Panthers, finally, organized a party that was political and militant above all else.
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